'Launching' "The Fleet That Came to Stay"
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
'Launching' "The Fleet That Came to Stay"
July 19, 1945
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions stamped in ink on verso LC: BuAer 602868
stamped in ink on verso C: 2
printed in ink on verso: FILE NO: 602868 HOLD FOR RELEASE/ UNTIL 8PM (EMT)/ JULY 19, 1945/
'LAUNCHING' "THE FLEET THAT CAME TO STAY"--Putting the finishing touches to/ the Navy Photograhic Ser vice's[sic] exciting and memorable film "THE FLEET THAT/ CAME TO STAY" at Photographic Science Laboratory, Anacostia, D.C., are/ (left to right) Lt. Collier Young, USNR, editor of film, who was attached/ to the Fleet during the Okinawa sea-air duel which highlights the film;/ Specialist (Photography) First Ch ss[sic] Harold Hunt Knettles of Los Angeles,/ Calif., film cutter; Lt. Fort Pearson, USNR, narrator of the picture, and/ Lt. Lohman Engel, composer of the musical score. The film was made from/ 200,000 feet of film made during the Okinawa invasion by the U.S. Navy, Marine/ and Coast Guard photographers./
WATCH YOUR CREDIT/
"OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH"/
The Navy Department has no objection to the use of this photograph in commercial/ advertisements, provided copy and layout are submitted for review prior to/ publication to the REVIEW SECTION, OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, NAVY DEPARTMENT,/ WASHINGTON, D.C., or to District Public Relations Office. However, it has no/ power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./
stamped in ink on verso C: 2
printed in ink on verso: FILE NO: 602868 HOLD FOR RELEASE/ UNTIL 8PM (EMT)/ JULY 19, 1945/
'LAUNCHING' "THE FLEET THAT CAME TO STAY"--Putting the finishing touches to/ the Navy Photograhic Ser vice's[sic] exciting and memorable film "THE FLEET THAT/ CAME TO STAY" at Photographic Science Laboratory, Anacostia, D.C., are/ (left to right) Lt. Collier Young, USNR, editor of film, who was attached/ to the Fleet during the Okinawa sea-air duel which highlights the film;/ Specialist (Photography) First Ch ss[sic] Harold Hunt Knettles of Los Angeles,/ Calif., film cutter; Lt. Fort Pearson, USNR, narrator of the picture, and/ Lt. Lohman Engel, composer of the musical score. The film was made from/ 200,000 feet of film made during the Okinawa invasion by the U.S. Navy, Marine/ and Coast Guard photographers./
WATCH YOUR CREDIT/
"OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH"/
The Navy Department has no objection to the use of this photograph in commercial/ advertisements, provided copy and layout are submitted for review prior to/ publication to the REVIEW SECTION, OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, NAVY DEPARTMENT,/ WASHINGTON, D.C., or to District Public Relations Office. However, it has no/ power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./
